Neckwear.



MOSHBR.

GKWEAR.

APPLICATION 1911. 988,280. 1 Patented Mar. 28, 1911.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

HARRY S. MOSHEE,-OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE ALTMAN NECKWEAR 00.,

02B NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

NECKWEAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28, 19-11;

Application filed January 9, 1911. Serial No. 601,718.

To all whom 'it concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY S. MosHnR, residing at- New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Neckwear, of which the following is a specification. a

This invention relates to neckwear, and has for its object the provision of .a new and improved scarf or necktie, particularly of the four-in-hand type.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter described, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claims.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein is shown amerely preferred form of embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a view showing a strip of material constituting a blank from which the tie is to be formed; Fig. 2 is a view of the same in a partly formed condition; and Fig. 3 is a view illustrating the strip when formed into the tie.

Before proceeding to describe the man ner in which the tie is constructed, it may be premised that my invention contemplates the production of a tie which while possessing the desirable quality of reversibility, nevertheless has the desirable attributes of the non-reversible open ended four-in-hand t-ie. It will be apparent that these advantages are obtained in a tie of the character that I shall now proceed to describe.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates a strip of cloth cut substantially as shown. The size of this strip is of course immaterial, being determined by the length and breadth of the tie to be formed. The edges of the strip at the'end portions are hemmed as indicated by the dotted lines at 2 and 3. The edge portions of the strip lengthwise thereof are then folded upon themselves, substantially as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the portions so folded being indicated at t and-5. The strip is then folded along a median line as indicated at 6, so that one half of the strip length wise thereof is lapped upon the other; the lapping edges being flush with each other. These lapped portions are then stitched together adjacent the folds 4 and 5 through the intermediate portion only of the length of the strip, such stitching extending to the hemmed ends of the strip as indicated at 7 in Fig. 3. This completes the tie, and it will be noted that the opposite sides thereof are substantially identical in so far as the eX- posed wearing surfaces are concerned, so that the tie may be worn either'side out with equal facility, and at the same time the undesirable qualities of the reversible tie of this character as hitherto constructed are entirely absent, the tie being to all appearances one of the character known as the open ended four-in-hand tie.

' As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. It is also to be understood that'the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention, which as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A reversible neck-tie comprising a strip of suitable materiahhaving a longitudinal fold extending throughout its length and, forming overlapping portions, the edges of said overlapping portions being substantially flush atone end of the strip, the lapped edges being stitched together for a portion of the length of' the strip, and the edges of the lapped portions at said end being disconnected so that sald end s open.

2. A reversible neck-tie comprising a strip of suitable material, the edge portions of which are folded upon themselves lengthwise of the strip, said strip having amedian fold forming lapped portions, the edges In testimony whereof I afix my signature tf said lapped porgt ions being substalntiallg in the presence of two Witnesses.

ush at one end 0 the stri said appe edges being stitched together for a portion I HARRY MOSHER' of the length of the strip, and the edges of Witnesses: the lapped portions at said end being dis- JOSEPH BURNSTEIN, connected so that said end is open. BEN QUITTNER. 

